Bethann Moran-Handzlik

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Bethann Moran-Handzlik's paintings investigate the beauty of the natural world. A plein air artist, Bethann paints directly from nature throughout the year. 

Bethann's preferred medium is oil, which lends a discernable quality of truth to her painting.  Her contemplative process and effortless use of paint mark the change in weather, season, and light, as seen in her sweeping gardenscape painting featured above.  It can take weeks or months for her to complete a single painting.

Bethann received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BA from St. Norbert College. Her work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the Hudson River Fellowship, Grand Central Atelier, NY, and La Napoule Artist Foundation Residency, La Napoule, France. She has taught at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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Michael Noland

Michael Noland's paintings are based on traditional American scenes molded to his unique vision. Noland creates vitality through exaggeration in form, repetition of lines, and saturation of color. Common views and unique animals seem both darkly surreal and amusing. Nature pulsates with life and colors reverberate with an electric charge. The artist has enjoyed over ten museum exhibitions across the country and is an NEA fellowship recipient.

James Winn

Contemporary artist James Winn captures the spirit of the midwest in masterfully illuminated landscapes and flower paintings.  Known for his rolling landscapes with distant horizons under boundless skies, Winn has narrowed his focus on nature in his most recent work.  Larger-than-life surprise lilies bathed in magnificent light against dark backgrounds, lotus lilies in reflective ponds, and heavily laden branches of azalea blossoms, are now the focal point of his large scale paintings. Winn instills his paintings with the sense of “presence”  he describes as something “one can only experience when alone and attentive in nature.”

Born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1949, Winn moved to Illinois in his youth where he has lived and painted ever since.  He attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago in the late 1960’s and later received his BS, MS, and MFA from Illinois State University where he studied with Midwestern landscape master Harold Gregor.

To see all of James Winn’s available work, please click HERE